Sean Salmon’s gonna get monkeyed

Sean Salmon was on MMAJunkie today to announce a fight against Jason Mayhem Miller (bad idea) and his desire to fight Cung Le (good idea). The ‘Rashad Evans High Kick Incident’ aside, Salmon has shown himself to be better at dealing with strikers than with submission experts. And for all his goofiness, Jason Miller’s got some pretty impressive sub skills. In his WEC fight against Hiromitsu Miura, he put on a jiu-jitsu clinic which included ” target=”_blank”>the uber-rare ‘banana split’, which really deserves a slightly less gay name. How do you say banana split in portugeese? That typically adds 50 cool points.

Now a fight with Cung Le would definitely be good for Salmon. Le is still acclimatizing to MMA, and a strong wrestler who’s actually willing to take Le to the ground probably wouldn’t have a hard time pounding him out. Salmon knows this … but Strikeforce knows this too, and there’s no way they’re gonna let this fight happen. So don’t get your hopes up.

You’re actually giving salmon a little bit too much respect when saying that he would actually pound cung le out. Le actually has some wrestling background which I think would be enough to fend off Salmon long enough to get the ko… Besides, I assume Sean isn’t bright enough to shoot immediately for the takedown, and would instead try to test his supposed much-improved striking against le’s for a bit

Nate

It seems like he’s been fighting every weekend which makes me wonder when he finds time to work on his guillotine defense.